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Acacia gemina

Acacia gemina
Photo: Gderrin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia gemina is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading, much-branched shrub with branchlets covered with soft hairs, narrowly oblong or broadly elliptic, leathery phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear, strongly curved to coiled pods, raised over and slightly constricted between the seeds.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in lateritic gravel or deep sand in open heath or low woodland in the Boyagin Rock Nature Reserve, Saddlebask Timber Reserve, near Narrogin and Hyden, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Acacia plants

Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia gemina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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